here is kathryn bigelow last night before she knew what was going it to happen on david letterman talking about that issue. >> a moment like when she's drawing the numbers on the window, that's a very specific moment that really happed. now, the reactions and the dialogue surrounding that, that's scripted. that's where drama comes in and the art of cinema comes in. you see the kind of fusion between fact and drama. >> she doesn't pretend that everything is fact. >> well, it would be absurd to think it's a documentary presented as drama. you just can't do that. and i want to point out that this notion of movies that are in contention for the oscars coming up, based on history, coming under scrutiny, this is something that happens very frequently and sometimes it's used in the battle for films vying for an oscar win. in this case, she's going headlong into one of the most sensitive topics in modern american political history, which is the issue of torture. how we found osama bin laden and what role torture played, she's taking on a sensitive topic. it's not a big surprise that washington re